Minor help needed HDD

Thu Jul 01, 2004 5:52 pm by H.Q. Victor

Just got a new system and I want to transfer my backup hard drive from the old to the new. Its been too long since I added the back up to the other computer. A question, the ribbon from MB to drive to drive, is the first the main and the other slave? And yes Taw, its a compaq. Got a good deal.

512 mb ram, will install other strip to 1gb
DVD +r/rw/ CD- R/RW Drive
CD rom Drive
160gb hdd
AMD Athalon 2.16ghz
Adding a ATI 9600 SE 128mb
Onboard photo, ect card reader
6 USB ports
Modem

I want to get it up and runing, but need to know for sure on the hdd . The both look the same in place.

Thanks in advance.

Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:08 pm by mustang

A question, the ribbon from MB to drive to drive, is the first the main and the other slave?

Correct, make sure your jumper pins on your hdd's are set right too or no worky.

Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:11 pm by Arania

I didnt ever know it mattered to be honest...

Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:31 pm by mustang

Actually I don't think it does matter (as long as your jumpers are set), but it makes installation a lot easier.

Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:18 pm by Stinger

Master goes on the end

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3+ years here and still lovin' every minute!

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Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:20 pm by Esquilax

Compaq?!?!? *Thwacks Final* Haven't you been listening?!?!? *Thwacks Final again*

Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:11 am by Tawakalna

I've never trusted cable-select, and never will. Thank the God of Computers for jumpers!

Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:08 am by H.Q. Victor

The jumper was set, I just could not remember the order that I put it into the case. Compaq just made me a good offer, the whole thing for jut $679, which ain't bad. I still want to build one, just not right now. The very first one I had was a custom built, but cost $600 and that was in back in 1998.

Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:49 pm by warrior17

ya, iam buliding an computer and tiger direct messed us over 4 times and finely we are getting it, but thell probly mess us up agian because its back orderd. also i think it would be neat to build one and iam sooooon going to find out... not really looking forword to it tho since i have no clue as to how to build one....

Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:55 pm by H.Q. Victor

I'm doing my back-ups now for transfer to the new one. Got about 5gb to transfer. Can't transfer by cable as I only have one monitor. But it is going well. A lot will be put on the slave HDD to swap over. Can't wait till its running.

Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:30 pm by warrior17

ya, i had to transer bout the same amout, but mostly in music, gsss took forever tho. good luck tho

Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:43 pm by Esquilax

Taw - Jumpers are great, but I still remember the good ole days of DIP switches on MBs... I could never find a pen when I wanted to play with them though

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Sat Jul 03, 2004 7:21 am by H.Q. Victor

Well, its up and running, sort of. I got the 1gb ram working, the Slave hdd working, but it will not reconise the ATI card at all. I checked the settings and changed it from PCI to AGP/onboard setting, but to no avail. It will not show the card as being there. When I plug the monitor in to the card I get the bouncing message of no connection. The card is secure as I can see. I did as the instructions said, to install the divers first, shut down and then install the card. No luck, so at the moment, I am using 64mb of shared mem for the video. Any Ideas?

Sat Jul 03, 2004 7:29 am by Tawakalna

have you seated the card properly? very very common for AGP cards to not q fit, take it out and reseat it.

Sat Jul 03, 2004 7:40 am by H.Q. Victor

Just did, Not working. My old computer would let me disable using onboard, but this one won't. I even tried disableing the current adapter, no go. This sucks.

I might try my old nivdea card to see if it works. Hate to think I got a bad card. I would not be happy losing $129.

Update - I swaped the ATI card with my old nivid card and it picked it up right away. AGP and all. It looks like I got a bad card. Bummer. I may see about getting a better nivid card now as I want more video mem.

Edited by - Finalday on 7/3/2004 8:58:17 AM

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